1909]. 75 



(Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wieii, xxxi, p. 523), aud it is the s|)ecies known 

 to British Coleopterists as E. hunzei, Aube. The true E. brunneus 

 {kiinzei), which has the <;eueral facievS of a small Trichonijx mdrkeli, 

 is broader and more convex than E. auheanus, and tbe single male in 

 my collection ao;rees perfectly with the descriptions of Reitter and 

 Ganglbauer. The localities quoted by Fowler (Col. Brit, iii, p. 102) 

 for E. kunzei — mostly in Kent and Surrey, and to which Guildford 

 (G. C. C.) and Shiere (Capron) may be added— and his description 

 of that species, therefore, refer to E. auheanus, aud one of the 

 two localities for E. duponti, Cobham Park, must be transferred to 

 E. brunneus {kunzei). This latter seems to be somewhat widely 

 distributed on the continent, but E. aubeanus has as yet only been 

 recorded from Mecklenburg (Konow). The two species may be 

 distinguished thus : — 



Elongate, narrow, flattened ; antennae rather slender ; head with a deep tri- 

 angnlar notch on the vertex ; elytra scarcely rounded at the sides, sub- 

 parallel, the humeri but little swollen. (J : Metasternum with a very 

 faintly impressed median line ; 4th ventral segment feebly sinuate at the 

 apex, 5th with a very broad transverse pit at the base, the outer portions 

 swollen, 6th transversely flattened across the median third, widely and 

 shallowly emarginate at the apex, and bearing on each side a large flat- 

 tened, tuberculiform prominence, which is clothed behind with long hairs ; 



femora moderately stout ; intermediate tibise curved aubeanus, Reitt. 



{kunzei, Brit. Coll.). 



Broader and rather convex ; antennae stouter ; head with a shallower notch on 

 the vertex ; elytra distinctly rounded at the sides, the humeri swollen. J : 

 Metasternum deeply sulcate from near the base to the apex; 4th ventral 

 segment drawn out into an obtuse angle in the middle behind, 5th with a 

 very broad, sharply-defined, semicircular pit at the base extending in the 

 middle to near the hind margin, 6th more deeply emarginate at the apex, 

 and with a transverse depression extending across the middle, and a fovea 

 in the centre ; femora very stout ; anterior tibise armed with an extremely 

 minute tooth on the inner edge towards the apes, and obliquely truncate 

 thence to the tip ; intermediate tibiae strongly bowed to near the base... 



brunneus, Grimmer, 

 {kunzei, Aube, 

 erichsoni, Thorns.). 



I am indebted to Herr E. Reitter for his assistance in determin- 

 ing these interesting insects. 



Horgell, Woking : 



March Wlh, 1909. 



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